WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO OCTOBER 1914
Find out what all happened March to October 1914

World War I: Germany invades Belgium. In response, Belgium and the United Kingdom declare war on Germany. The United States declares its neutrality. (4. August 1914)

Felix Manalo registers the Iglesia ni Cristo with the Philippine government. (27. July 1914)

World War I: German forces occupy Brussels. (20. August 1914)

Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major League Baseball. (11. July 1914)

World War I: The British super-dreadnought battleship HMS Audacious (23,400 tons), is sunk off Tory Island, north-west of Ireland, by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin. (27. October 1914)

World War I: The Siege of Przemyśl (present-day Poland) begins. (24. September 1914)

World War I: the German colony of Togoland is invaded by French and British forces, who take it after 5 days. (26. August 1914)

World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic – two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea. (6. August 1914)

St. Petersburg, Russia, changes its name to Petrograd. (1. September 1914)

Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by Bosnia Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip, the casus belli of World War I. (28. June 1914)

The Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with the loss of 1,024 lives. (29. May 1914)

Aris is founded in Thessaloniki. (25. March 1914)

World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital. (5. September 1914)

Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign. (7. March 1914)

William, Prince of Albania leaves the country after just six months due to opposition to his rule. (3. September 1914)

World War I: South African troops open hostilities in German south-west Africa (Namibia) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station. (13. September 1914)

German submarine SM U-9 torpedoes and sinks the British cruisers, HMS Aboukir, HMS Hogue and HMS Cressy on the Broad Fourteens off the Dutch coast with the loss of over 1,400 men. (22. September 1914)

Honduras becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. (27. April 1914)

Ypiranga incident: A German arms shipment to Mexico is intercepted by the U.S. Navy near Veracruz, Veracruz. (21. April 1914)

The First Battle of Ypres begins. (19. October 1914)